On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 23:58:03 +0200 Flo <debian...@gmx.at> wrote: > > > > The best help I can offer is to recommend you don't use Base for > > anything mission-critical. It's barely useable, buggy as hell and > > it frequently regresses. It hasn't improved much in the last five > > years, though at least it can talk to MySQL directly now rather > > than using the even less functional ODBC. > > > > You and I must be two of about three people in the world using Base, > > because there's no sense of urgency there. I'm doing pretty much > > all my database work in PHP now. > > > > It is kind of critical, I programmed my tax consultant with Base. At > least it's not time critical :-) >
Last year, I opened Base to print an invoice, and the Report Writer was gone. Not a sign of it opening. I've had trouble with Report Writer before, but never had it actually go missing. So I spent an evening learning a PDF library and writing an invoice printer in PHP... It's a much better application, but it's single-purpose, so not a great ROI. I once had hopes of Base aspiring to be an Access (by far the best software MS has ever produced) clone, but I can't see it happening now. It never got good enough to get enough users to justify the effort to make it good enough... -- Joe
